Can jellyfish sting people to death?

Jellyfish venom can cause different degrees of damage after stinging the human body. Sea wasp jellyfish can secrete cobra-like venom, which is the most harmful to human beings and can cause death 5 minutes after jellyfish injury. The monk hat jellyfish contains "hypnotic toxin". It takes many days for the patient to eliminate the pain after stinging the human body. let's take a look at whether the jellyfish can sting to death.

Is jellyfish toxic?

Jellyfish venom can cause different degrees of damage after stinging the human body, such as sea wasp jellyfish, stinging silk can secrete cobra venom, which is the most harmful to human beings, and can cause death 5 minutes after jellyfish injury. The monk hat jellyfish contains a "hypnotoxin", which is made up of peptides and proteins and small molecules containing nitrogen. It takes many days for the patient to relieve the pain after stinging the body. Along the coast of China, there are common sand sea stings floating in the Yellow Sea with the cold current, which can secrete peptide poison. Jellyfish toxin is stored and distributed in the barbed silk sac. 1 gram of jellyfish toxin contains 55 million single thorn silk sacs. Generally, after fishing, the toxicity of jellyfish toxin can disappear quickly after processing.

Can jellyfish sting people to death?

Jellyfish can sting to death. The thin and tender part of the human skin is the most prone to stinging. Generally, the electric shock-like tingling sensation can occur in a few minutes, and the electric shock-like tingling sensation gradually appears in the injured area after a few hours. After a few hours, the injured area gradually appears a blood rash with erythema arranged in line, itching and burning pain. The mild one can heal itself in about 20 days. Patients with strong sensitivity may have erythema edema, wind masses, blisters, ecchymosis, and even epidermal necrosis. The patient's whole body performance may have restlessness, chills, abdominal pain, diarrhea, low spirits and chest tightness and shortness of breath. Severe cases often have cough and asthma attacks, spitting white or pink foamed sputum, accompanied by signs of anaphylactic shock, such as weakness of pulse, cyanosis of skin and decrease of blood pressure. If the rescue is not timely, patients with this kind of sting can die in a short period of time.

Stinging statistics of jellyfish

The sea area of China is vast, and there are a considerable number of jellyfish cases from July to September every year. In the past, they were mainly fishermen fishing for jellyfish and patients who were stung by swimming and swimming on the seashore. For example, more than 3400 people have been injured in Qinhuangdao seashore in recent years. According to the statistics of Beidaihe Seaside Hospital, a total of 3030 patients who were stung have been treated since 1989, of which 0.3% caused fulminant allergic pulmonary edema and 4 died (all with severe shock).

How to prevent being stung?

The most important thing to prevent jellyfish stings is to avoid contact with jellyfish, especially fishermen to do a good job of personal protection, do not be careless. When fishing, try to use tools without direct contact with jellyfish beard, people with special and sensitive constitution should be prohibited from going to sea. The seaside tourist destination should set up a buoy fence net in the jellyfish flood season, set up eye-catching propaganda and warning signs at the seaside, and cooperate with the popular science education and broadcasting of injury prevention, so as to improve the knowledge and ability of tourists' self-protection. If you go swimming or take a boat in the sea, you must not touch the jellyfish, let alone catch it, because in the event of an accident at sea, it is more difficult to rescue. Once injured by jellyfish, the injured must not panic, as long as timely treatment in the hospital, generally can be quickly improved and cured. On the contrary, if the stung person acts improperly or is carelessly paralyzed, it is easy to drown, fall or cause danger and aggravation due to untimely treatment.